Healthcare workers participating in a 2-day hazardous materials training course at St. Mary's Hospital recently took a mock patient into a decontamination shower set up outside the hospital's ambulance bay. Nearly 70 people from healthcare organizations across Northeast Georgia learned how to handle victims contaminated by chemical, biological or radioactive agents from accidents or attacks, such as the recent train derailment in Graniteville, S.C., or the sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in 1995. The course was conducted by the Medical College of Georgia under a grant from the Georgia Division of Public Health to better prepare hospitals for the panic that likely would follow a major accident or attack.

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